IV. Your Function in the Atonement, P 4
4 You need not understand creation to do what must be done before that knowledge would be meaningful to you. God breaks no barriers; neither did He make them. When you release them they are gone. God will not fail, nor ever has in anything. Decide that God is right and you are wrong about yourself. He created you out of Himself, but still within Him. He knows what you are. Remember that there is no second to Him. There cannot, therefore, be anyone without His Holiness, nor anyone unworthy of His perfect Love. Fail not in your function of loving in a loveless place made out of darkness and deceit, for thus are darkness and deceit undone. Fail not yourself, but instead offer to God and you His blameless Son. For this small gift of appreciation for His Love, God will Himself exchange your gift for His.
Journal
How wonderful that I don’t have to understand creation. Creation is what it is without my understanding. Not only that, but it is meaningful to me whether I understand it or not. To experience that meaning, I need only accept my function. I need only love and be loved, and this I do as I accept the Atonement for myself. It might look like I have to do a lot to achieve this, but really whileI have found this to be true, I have at the same time, found that it is not true.
I have had to look at my thoughts and their effects with the Holy Spirit. This felt like hard work because at first, I resisted it. I didn’t want to look at my thoughts. I didn’t want to take responsibility for their effects. This is the reason it felt like hard work. But slowly, as I surrendered to the process, I discovered that it wasn’t hard at all. I just did it. I laid the false thoughts on the altar and walked away from them. Now when it feels hard, it is because I lay them on the altar and then I stand there keeping an eye on them. ~smile~
How could this be hard? As I lay my beliefs aside, I am simply discovering what always lay beneath them. I am still as God created me. He knows what I am and He has not changed His mind about me. He created me love, and it is love that I am in spite of my foolish belief I could be something else. This is all that salvation is; I am still as God created me. I have not changed creation. I have made a loveless place in my mind and believe I dwell there. But as I insist on love even in this dark place, I dispel the darkness.
This is God’s plan for my salvation, and I desire only His plan. I have tried my plan and it has never worked. I thought that I could find a perfect relationship, a better job, a healthier, prettier body, or a sanctuary in this dangerous place and then I would be saved. And not one of those plans has ever been my salvation. They have all fallen apart and left me without hope, at least I was without hope until I found A Course in Miracles. Through A Course in Miracles, I finally understood that I was in competition with God for the plan for salvation that would work. No wonder it all felt so hopeless.
Ha! You win, God! I give up. I don’t know how to save myself. Thank you for Your Holy Spirit; thank you for placing It in my mind right next to my problem. Thank you, Jesus, for completing the Atonement so that all I have to do is accept it. Thank you for hanging here with me, and helping me as I choose again. Thank you for standing at the end, ready to undo what we are not able to undo ourselves. This very little You ask of me, that I simply lay aside my own plan and accept Yours, this I am willing to do.
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